In this Unit of Work, Year 4 students adopt an historical inquiry approach to learn about what life was like in 1788 through a range of different texts. Assessment tasks include creating an informative text and an historical narrative excerpt.

Learning a language is hard when you're not immersed in the culture and surrounded by people who speak the language; that's why WeSpeke hopes to connect you with fluent speakers of the language you're trying to learn. Using the magic of the Internet and webcams, WeSpeke allows you to chat with people who are fluent in…

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The Search Results: Among other useful materials, I stumbled across a pretty neat interactive image on the Cyberbee site that answers some common student questions about copyright, including the one that sent me over the edge!

You went to school and think you know. But you don't. Teaching as a profession has no mystery. It has no mystique. It has no respect. We were students, and therefore we know teachers. We denigrate teachers. We criticize teachers. We can do better than teachers. After all: We do. They teach. We are wrong.

Sir Ken Robinson offers a critique of contemporary education and its origins, and argues for creative and collaborative transformation in the classroom.

The aim for education in Australia must be to create a nation where the creative talents of all the people are used to build a true enterprise economy. As a nation, we cannot rely on a small elite. We need the creativity, enterprise and scholarship of all our people.

June , 2014 Today I am sharing with you a list of some useful websites you can use with your students to help them better improve their grammar knowledge and polish their writing skill. From grammar...

In honor of the Bard’s 450th birthday this month, and the surplus of Shakespeare in theaters as a result, we’ve revamped our main resource page and provided seven broad ideas that might serve as starting points in teaching his work.

You went to school and think you know. But you don't. Teaching as a profession has no mystery. It has no mystique. It has no respect. We were students, and therefore we know teachers. We denigrate teachers. We criticize teachers. We can do better than teachers. After all: We do. They teach. We are wrong.

The culmination of my quest for more powerful learning grounded in theory and research came when recently I conducted an experiment in pushing constructionism into the digital age.

Constructionism is based on two types of construction. First, it asserts that learning is an active process, in which people actively construct knowledge from their experience in the world. People don’t get ideas; they make them. This aspect of construction comes from the constructivist theory of knowledge development by Jean Piaget. To Piaget’s concept, Papert added another type of construction, arguing that people construct new knowledge with particular effectiveness when they are engaged in constructing personally meaningful products.

Imagine my surprise and joy when I realized that I had arrived at constructionism prior to knowing that such a theory even existed. I believe that thousands of other educators are unknowingly working within the constructionist paradigm as well. Although many within the Maker movement are aware that it has it’s roots in constructionism, the movement is gaining impressive momentum without the majority of Makers realizing that there is a strong theoretical foundation behind their work.

After I came to understand this connection between my practices and the supporting theoretical framework I was better able to focus and refine my practice. Even more importantly, I felt more confident and powerful in forging ahead with further experiments in the learning situations I design for my learners.

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